Here's an interesting one. From what I've read of his comments, Dr. Wonderful is NOT a fundagelical or close. He's a liberal Xn who takes much of biblical theology "non-literally." He's also a ThD in systematic theology. The ThD not PhD means it's likely from a Protestant denominational seminary.
He claims that there's a new scholarly consensus on WAY early dating of Christian gospels.
As for his op cits? This Bloomsbury book presumably makes claims refuted elsewhere about Mark 13's background. I find other presumptions of him less than plausible.
He's also wrong on the dating of P52. And, other things about it. Given how small it is, it could be a fragment of the Egerton Gospel. Or, if of John, could be of a version of John from before its final redaction.
Finally, given that Paul invented the Lord's Supper, there's no way any of the Synoptics could come before him.
That's not his biggest stupidity, though.
Claiming "the afterlife doesn't exist in Judaism," is.
He gets his theology wrong in one of two ways. He either is claiming that Orthodox Jews, along with many Conservative and Reconstructionist ones, don't believe in an afterlife, or he's claiming that Yahwism of the pre-rabbinic era is Judaism. If he's an academic with a ThD and making that claim, his master's and doctorate work obviously taught him nothing about the Tanakh/Old Testament. Or, by the whole comment, it could be BOTH. Anyway, not only is he not a fundagelical, he appears to be a New Agey flower child version of a Protestant Christian.
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